An-Najm Verse 24

Or should every person ˹simply˺ have whatever ˹intercessors˺ they desire?[[ Arab pagans took these idols as intermediaries to intercede for them on the Day of Judgment (see {39:3}) ]]

Is it that man can get whatever he wishes for?

Or shall man have whatever he fancies?

Is man to have everything he wishes for,

Shall man have whatsoever he wisheth for!

Nay, shall man have (just) anything he hankers after?

Does man imagine that whatever he wishes for is right for him?

Can ever man get what he desires?

What! Will man get whatever he dreams of?

Shall man have whatever he yearns for?

Or will human attain whatever he craves?

Can a person always have whatever he desires?

Or (is it) to the human/mankind what he wished/desired

What! Will man get whatever he dreams of?

Or shall man have whatever whims he wishes

Or shall man have what he wishes?

They are naught but names which you have named, you and your fathers -- Allah has sent no authority for them. They follow but conjecture and what (their) souls desire. And certainly the guidance has come to them from their Lord.

Or shall man have what he wishes?

Or shall man have what he coveteth?

Can the human being have whatever he wishes?

Is the human to have whatever he fancies?

Or shall man have what he wishes

Shall man have whatever he craves?

Or is the human being to have whatever he desires?

Or shall man, that is, shall every human being among them, have whatever he wishes for?, such as [their wish] that the idols intercede for them. [No!] It is not so.

Or shall man have what he wishes,

asserting that not everyone gets the goodness that he wishes,

لَّيْسَ بِأَمَـنِيِّكُمْ وَلا أَمَانِىِّ أَهْلِ الْكِتَـبِ

It will not be in accordance with desires (of Muslims), nor those of the People of Scripture. (4;123)

Allah says, not everyone who claims to be guided is truly guided, and not everyone gets what he wishes for himself.

Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,

إِذَا تَمَنَّى أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَنْظُرْ مَا يَتَمَنَّى فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي مَا يُكْتَبُ لَهُ مِنْ أُمْنِيَّتِه

When one of you wishes for something, let him be careful with what he wishes for, because he does not know what part of his wish will be written for him.

Only Ahmad collected this Hadith.

Allah's statement,

فَلِلَّهِ الاْخِرَةُ وَالاُْولَى

Or does man think that whatever he wishes or desires is law